> We steal their childhoods from them so they can sit for 8+ hours per day and develop soul-crushing anxiety, so they have the chance to compete for a soulless career at a corporation?
Public "education" made me despise learning and helped suppress my love of reading to the point that I'm only just starting to rekindle it. I performed well in school, but not well enough to be in advanced courses. It was complete torture, constantly vascilating between things being so easy that I'd stop paying attention to then being difficult because I'd fallen behind. This isn't even including disciplinary nonsense, I've got stories about that.
Public "education" made me despise learning and helped suppress my love of reading to the point that I'm only just starting to rekindle it. I performed well in school, but not well enough to be in advanced courses. It was complete torture, constantly vascilating between things being so easy that I'd stop paying attention to then being difficult because I'd fallen behind. This isn't even including disciplinary nonsense, I've got stories about that.